STOCK MARKET - JAKARTA. At the end of the trading session on the Indonesia Stock Exchange today, Friday (5/6), the Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) dropped quite deeply. Without having time to strengthen in early trade, the JCI immediately declined.
When the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) closed its first trading session today, the JCI was in the index number of 4,899.95. That means within 2 hours of trading, the main index on the Indonesian stock exchange fell as deep as 0.34%.
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The decline in the JCI was in line with the decline in sectoral indices. SIx of 10 sectoral indices on the Indonesia Stock Exchange ended the first session in at red zone. They are the Financial sector (-0.49%), Manufacturing (-0.64%), Agriculture (-0.66%), Infrastructure (-0.75%), Consumer Goods (-0.80%) and Industry Basic (-1.01%).
The three positive sectoral indices in the first half of trading today are the Construction sector (2.13%), Various Industries (0.86%) and Mining (0.36%).
It appears that the deepest decline in today's morning trading session befell the Basic Industry sector index. The highest increase was experienced by the Construction sector index.